UK Doc'n Roll Film Festival inc Lee Fields Film - Oct - Nov 2022

Doc’n Roll Film Festival starts a 13 city tour later this month. Billed as an 'experience-led festival', Doc’n Roll offers film showing backed up with live Q&As with directors and musicians, special DJ sets, afterparties and post-screening gigs.

Doc’n Roll Film Festival and details follow below

COUNTDOWN... AND WE'RE ROLLING!

Doc’n Roll Film Festival returns to big screens nationwide this autumn for its 9th London edition, and a 13-city tour – to Birkenhead, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield – offering a truly UK-wide programme of premiere music documentaries.

An experience-led festival, Doc’n Roll brings its events to life with live Q&As with directors and musicians, special DJ sets, afterparties and post-screening gigs.

This year Doc’n Roll will screen a hand-picked selection of 21 feature-length documentaries and 9 shorts from around the globe, with both in-cinema and online offerings, and multiple world, European, UK and London premieres of highly anticipated films.

FROM ELECTRONIC TO SOUL & PSYCH TO JAZZ

A programme of musical discovery highlighting major artists and unsung heroes, cult icons and underground subcultures, Doc’n Roll puts a dazzling range of rhythms, musicians and music scenes in the spotlight, and showcases stories from the worlds of electronic, folk and punk to the landscapes of soul, psychedelia and jazz.

The theme of change is at the heart of this year’s lineup, from the personal impact of health conditions to the positive influence of creative communities as they respond to social and political change, and music’s ability to inspire and empower in the fight against injustice. This year's programme aims, say Doc’n Roll’s founders, to help us navigate a world full of constant upheaval and change.

More info via

https://www.docnrollfestival.com/

Lee Fields: Faithful Man Documentary

WORLD PREMIERE

Dir. Jessamyn Ansary and Joyce Mishaan, 2022, USA, 80 min

His voice has been compared to James Brown, but Lee Fields is no knock-off. He’s the real thing. Listening to the soul sounds coming through his transistor radio in the late fifties and early sixties, Lee was hooked. Through the seventies, he made his living touring the legendary Chitlin’ Circuit alongside some of the greatest names in blues and soul history. He landed a gig with Kool and the Gang before their rise to fame. But, as the seventies came to a close, disco began its reign and Lee's soul career plummeted. For decades, he thought his music dreams were dead. But with one phone call, everything changed...

Event supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Lee Fields: Faithful Man Documentary Screening

SCREENING (directors Q&A): 01 November 2022 at 19:00
Birmingham - Mockingbird

SCREENING (directors Q&A): 02 November 2022 at 18:00
Brighton - Komedia

SCREENING (zoom directors Q&A): 02 November 2022 at 18:30
Liverpool - FACT Picturehouse

SCREENING: 03 November 2022
Nottingham - The Old Bus Depot

SCREENING (directors Q&A): 04 November 2022 at 18:15
London - Barbican Cinema 2

SCREENING (directors Q&A): 05 November 2022 at 20:15
Glasgow - GFT

SCREENING (directors Q&A): 05 November 2022 at 16:00
Edinburgh - Cameo

SCREENING (directors Q&A): 06 November 2022 at 16:00
Manchester - HOME

SCREENING (Premiere  10 November 2022 at 18:30
Sheffield - Showroom

SCREENING (Premiere): 11 November 2022 at 20:00
Bristol - CUBE